It's a little more than a week until ANGELS & AIRWAVES
release their third full-length, Love, on Sunday, Feb. 14 (for
free, natch). The album will also be accompanied by a film that will see
a theatrical release later this year, plus a deluxe edition of the disc
for purchase. We did a quick check-in with AVA frontman TOM DeLONGE to
see what all the Angels & Airwaves attention means for new BLINK-182 music. --Rachel Lux

"Blink are in the process of scheduling how we are going to record the
next record. We already started before the tour, the only issue we're
having now is that Angels are having quite a lot of electricity being
built, so we have kind of the release of our life, and with this film
and everything, we're just trying to schedule how we're going to be able
to be in the studio. That meeting was actually supposed to take place
last week and then this week, but this week already came to a
close, so it's hard because we're all so busy.

Mark [Hoppus] is actually doing a remix for Angels & Airwaves that
will be on the sellable version of [Love]. We have a record that
we're selling that has 30 minutes extra music on it, plus a remix from
Mark. Travis [Barker] has got a million things going on as well, so
we're focusing on that and this week kind of went out the window. But
I'm gearing up for tour, so the goal is that we're going to be meeting
once or twice a week up until when I leave, and then when I get back
from tour, it'll open the window up to really dig into it.

We actually got a lot done quickly [on the new Blink album] because
people were working simultaneously in different studios, so we're hoping
it will go really quickly. I'm in a good spot, because I have two great
bands. I know how people are with Blink. I know how big Blink are and I
know the legacy with it and everything, but Angels & Airwaves, to
my heart and to the people who like it, this is the release of my life.
This is the most complicated and all-encompassing and heartfelt
project--this album and this movie--that I've ever done in my entire
life. It's really, really exciting because it really exceeded my
expectations. I thought it was going to suffer to some degree because I
was getting thrown around with the other band as well, and the tour or
whatever, but I'm really, really, really excited about [the album
release on] Valentine's Day. One step at a time for me--it's hard for me
to bounce back and forth, and right now my mind is all Angels and
trying to figure out how to schedule the upcoming Blink recording,
because that's coming quick, too." alt